2021至2022英语周报新课程八年级外研第五版

2021至2022英语周报新课程八年级外研第五版

Cheaters called “pirates” often use camcorders(便携式摄像机) and cell phones to make illegal copies of blockbusters(大片) in the local theater. These pirates then sell those recordings on the street or over the Internet for very low prices. Some share them for free.

“It’s unfair for people to pirate movies, ” says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. Movie piracy “takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry,” she notes. Victims include famous actors and directors as well as local theater owners and their employees.

Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaia’s idea uses infrared(红外线的) light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theater owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie. It would, however, distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.

To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cell phones as well as camcorders. During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes(发光二极管), or LEDs. The LEDs were embedded（植入的） in a certain place behind the movie screen. They gave out infrared light.

Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on. It might be possible to use the LEDs to flash the date and time on the movie screen. The information would then appear in the illegal recordings. Theater owners or police might use the information to track down the pirates.

Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theaters to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced aren’t profitable. They don’t make enough money to recover how much was spent to make and market them. Such a poor payback can discourage filmmakers from producing anything but the types expected to become blockbuster hits. It might also keep smaller theaters from showing a wider variety of movie types.

1. From what Hadaia says in Paragraph 2, we can infer that _______.

A. most people spend less money on pirates moves

B. the pirates don’t have to pay for the movie tickets

C. theater owners will increase the price of movie tickets

D. she strongly criticizes those who video movies in the theater

2. Infrared lights are put on the movie screens to _______.

A. adjust the brightness of the movie screens

B. make sure the images of movies are dark

C. protect the eyesight of viewers in the darkness

D. make illegal copies of movies unpleasant to see

3.What is the correct order of the steps in Hadaia’s test?

a. She projected pictures on the screen.

b. She used cameras to record the pictures.

c. She turned on the LEDs placed behind the screen.

d. She made a special box with a movie screen inside.

A. bacd B. dcab C. dbac D. bcad

4.According to the last paragraph, we can know that _______.

A. forty percent of movies now are profitable

B. small theaters often choose to show low-cost movies

C. more and more people go to theaters to fight movie piracy

D. filmmakers prefer to produce ordinary movies than blockbusters

2021至2022英语周报新课程八年级外研第五版试题答案

1.D

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述盗版电影严重损害人们的利益，Hadaia想到一个方法来帮助减少盗版。

1.D 细节推断题。根据第二段提到“It’s unfair for people to pirate movies,盗版电影对于人们来说是不公平的，故选D项。

2.D 细节推断题。根据第三段提到Theater owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie. It would, however, distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.电影院会向屏幕上投射红外线，观众不会受到影响，但受使许多录像机受到影响，故为了杜绝盗版，故选D项。

3.B 细节推断题。根据第四段提到To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside.为了检验一下他的想法，这是第一步，再根据During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes(发光二极管), or LEDs.可知这是第二步，再放映电影，再录下来，可知选B项。

4.A 细节推断题。根据最后一段Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theaters to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced aren’t profitable.为了打击盗版，百分六十电影不是投影的，故选A项。

考点：社会现象类阅读。

What impresses me most is________he appears in front of others，he wears a sincere and charming smile.

A．what　B．which

C．that where　D．that whenever

2021至2022英语周报新课程八年级外研第五版试题答案

D

【解析】考查名词性从句。分析句子结构可知“________he appears…smile”为表语从句，其中包含一个时间状语从句，表示“无论他什么时候出现在别人面前”，故空处填that whenever。

答案：　D

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